Check mate for Traffic rule violators!!!

Now traffic constables can bit be free at the junctions. No need to hurry and catch or note it down the bike numbers of traffic rule violators.

Now the cameras are fixed at several junctions in the city on Friday, the traffic police can capture pictures and video-graph visible violations sitting in their control room at Hyderabad police commissioner ate.

Based on the photographs and visuals taken by the speed dome cameras at the junctions, numbers of the vehicles would be noted and ‘e-challans’ of fine amounts would be sent to the vehicle owners.

The city police have secured 99 speed dome cameras -22 sponsored by the Road Transport Authority and the remaining by the State police department - and another 36 fixed cameras. Out of these 105 cameras, 99 (63 speed dome cameras and 36 fixed cameras) would be affixed at 89 different intersections. Presently, 40 cameras at 34 junctions are commissioned.

All the cameras function based on Internet Protocol Television (IP TV) mode. While the fixed camera gives view of a particular stretch, the speed dome cameras can be tilted, panned, and zoomed onto any point up to a distance of 300 metres from its location. Each camera is connected to a modem at the junction. This is linked to the local telephone exchange through a dedicated BSNL line which is linked to the main telephone exchange through optic fibre cables. From here, the pictures and visuals are transmitted to the exchange installed beside the Surveillance Camera Monitoring Centre (SCMC) in the police commissionerate. The cameras and the centre would be on round-the-clock. Twelve screens of 21 inches size and four of 50 inches size are installed in the centre, Traffic Inspector A. Venkateswarlu explained. The staff of the Centre would alert the law and order police about traffic related and other violations during the nights. The system has capacity to store recordings of the cameras for 30 days.